I wouldn't disagree with many of his points, but he seems to have forgotten what the word "improvement" means.
I don't object to the replacement of the 3.5mm/2.5mm jack with something that's really ACTUALLY an improvement, perhaps: - make the jack a side-edge clip in, instead of a 360-degree inserted plug (if it could reliably hold) - go with the already-recognized 2.5mm jack and make that better (for whatever reason it hasn't already been adopted) - DON'T replace it with something that obviates all current hardware at a sweep, and requires products 10x the price to replace them
"In a survey from Pew Research Center, almost half said they wouldn't want to edit their baby's genes"
My guess is that they only surveyed Westerners, likely Americans, who've been the subject of heavy social programming for the last 50 years.
Ask the REST of the world, you're going to get a different answer. Hell, in India and China simply knowing your baby's going to be a girl is enough to get her aborted or tossed into the river after birth. Give them the option to *tweak* away the chance to even BE female, much less strong, smart, pretty, and (in most parts of the world) even a little or a lot lighter-skinned, it's going to become endemic.
...would be that it would fulfill (in China's eyes) the 'inhabited' clause of the law of the sea, thus entitling them to mineral rights.
Or, they simply say that they're conducting 'research' and exploit local minerals/drilling anyway.
I doubt it's a military base, it wouldn't take much at all to make who ever is inside an instant casualty in the event of conflict. A 'port' for military operations hopefully unobserved by US satellites and/or a nexus for setting up a substantial undersea surveillance network? Either one is likely.
Since any *reasonable* person recognizes that Hilary should win by a landslide, we need to lay the groundwork so that if Trump DOES win, we can call Russian Shenanigans and suspend the vote (you know, that "key to our democracy") in order to 'sort it out properly'.
...nobody in the satellite-launch business has ever heard of insurance? Particularly for high-risk activities that are hideously expensive and prone to go *boom* if something goes wrong?
Anyway, I think they're relatively clever ideas aesthetically. Of course with modularization the devil's in the details in terms of connectivity, reliability, and performance. And, also, there's the whole "the point of a desktop is INTERNAL modularity and replaceability - ie video cards, etc" thing which this then violates in it's way, apparently compelling any future upgrades to come from HP and not the PC ecosystem.
I don't like Apple, but the idea they fine Apple for an agreement between Apple and IRELAND is bullshit.
It's not Apple's job to ensure Ireland's offer is in conformance with EU policy. That's it. It's a company's duty to its shareholders to legally reduce its tax burden; by making an agreement with a GOVERNMENT, they fulfilled their role completely.
Of course, it's far/easier/ for the EU to try to punish Apple, as they really don't want to engender any more centrifugal forces in the EU right now by whomping Ireland with a $15bn invoice.
"The leading theory is that the climate started fluctuating heavily in Africa around that time" Impossible, there were neither SUVs nor Republicans. Climate couldn't have changed, particularly rapidly, without either of those things to blame.
Nothing at all like Mars: check. Fails to be in any way convenient for researchers and "support" projects: check Justifies a lot of people going to Hawaii paid for by the US taxpayer: check
Russia has INVADED and IS OCCUPYING a neighboring country (one they laughingly signed a note to protect, no less). China is essentially playing Age of Empires 2 in the South China sea, grabbing territory by building watchtowers and not giving a fuck about what anyone thinks. The EU is disintegrating as people start to realize manually bolting countries together doesn't actually make them act like a single country. Our economy is a sham based on completely phony numbers, contrived to enrich a tiny cadre of elites that drift in and out of power (always making more money with each step) like minglers at a garden party. Our media is essentially a giant cumrag, soaked and dripping with the lowest-common-denominator vulgarity and venality. We have one candidate for president that is a COMPLETE ASS and a know nothing buffoon who's like a cartoon character of himself, while the other candidate is corrupt to the very soul of her being, if she HAD a soul.
And what we're worrying about is whether films fairly represent women?
Where the fuck are the Visigoths to come climbing over OUR walls? Seriously, it's about time. If Rome was like this near the end, they probably welcomed it.
To be clear: 1) I think the gathering of handles like this is stupid, egregious, ridiculous, and a host of other adjectives. Suffice to say I think it's a bad idea. 2) that said, I think you grossly overestimate the US's need for, and concern about, tourists. Certainly there IS a tourism industry here, and it makes good $ and incomes for lots of people. But most Americans to this day don't even have a passport. The US, with its domestic market of 300 million mostly-wealthy people, ultimately doesn't care that much if foreign tourists don't come.
...so we're back to the 'impending death of the gaming console' again?
Seems like we just heard about the "death of the gaming computer" but I guess the cycles move more quickly.
How's that "death of the laptop" coming along by the way? I seem to recall the "experts" prognosticating we'd all be working on touchscreen tablets by now? Then of course there's paper - totally dead-tech too, amirite?
Well, I have to run and answer some of my 140+ work emails. It's a lot for something else I've been told is totally obsolescent and "dead".
...if they in ANY way moderate their content, then they're akin to a bbs provider or chat room provider and thus liable to the content itself. If someone is abused or stalked or whatever, then Twitter should be held liable. or...if they refuse to control content in any way, then I think they'd have the protected status of a common carrier like a telco. I can't sue the telco (with any reasonable chance of winning) if someone calls me up and tells me I'm an asshole (ok the truth may provide a defense there in any case...).
Of course, from my understanding they have been practicing filtering, some might say tendentiously, so IMO that should make them massively vulnerable to anyone suing them because of trolls, etc.
After all, we seem to have forgotten a few fundamental fact of Twitter: NOBODY *HAS* to look at the fucking thing. If you're uncomfortable with what's being said...stop reading it?
...when they've built the "first" of anything that hasn't been researched, developed, and likely designed by someone else such that they simply stole the plans, connected a few lines, and built it domestically.
They can't really even build a decent jet engine themselves.
Every game has bugs at launch, but let's be honest: has there been any game recently hyped this much that WASN'T a disappointment?
Surprise Answer: Yes! Star Citizen, because it hasn't come out yet so it's not YET a disappointment though it CERTAINLY will be. If I could sell short on that, I'd drop $10k on that bet.
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I wouldn't disagree with many of his points, but he seems to have forgotten what the word "improvement" means.
I don't object to the replacement of the 3.5mm/2.5mm jack with something that's really ACTUALLY an improvement, perhaps:
- make the jack a side-edge clip in, instead of a 360-degree inserted plug (if it could reliably hold)
- go with the already-recognized 2.5mm jack and make that better (for whatever reason it hasn't already been adopted)
- DON'T replace it with something that obviates all current hardware at a sweep, and requires products 10x the price to replace them
"In a survey from Pew Research Center, almost half said they wouldn't want to edit their baby's genes"
My guess is that they only surveyed Westerners, likely Americans, who've been the subject of heavy social programming for the last 50 years.
Ask the REST of the world, you're going to get a different answer. Hell, in India and China simply knowing your baby's going to be a girl is enough to get her aborted or tossed into the river after birth. Give them the option to *tweak* away the chance to even BE female, much less strong, smart, pretty, and (in most parts of the world) even a little or a lot lighter-skinned, it's going to become endemic.
...would be that it would fulfill (in China's eyes) the 'inhabited' clause of the law of the sea, thus entitling them to mineral rights.
Or, they simply say that they're conducting 'research' and exploit local minerals/drilling anyway.
I doubt it's a military base, it wouldn't take much at all to make who ever is inside an instant casualty in the event of conflict. A 'port' for military operations hopefully unobserved by US satellites and/or a nexus for setting up a substantial undersea surveillance network? Either one is likely.
Since any *reasonable* person recognizes that Hilary should win by a landslide, we need to lay the groundwork so that if Trump DOES win, we can call Russian Shenanigans and suspend the vote (you know, that "key to our democracy") in order to 'sort it out properly'.
Is that pretty much it?
...nobody in the satellite-launch business has ever heard of insurance? Particularly for high-risk activities that are hideously expensive and prone to go *boom* if something goes wrong?
Anyway, I think they're relatively clever ideas aesthetically.
Of course with modularization the devil's in the details in terms of connectivity, reliability, and performance. And, also, there's the whole "the point of a desktop is INTERNAL modularity and replaceability - ie video cards, etc" thing which this then violates in it's way, apparently compelling any future upgrades to come from HP and not the PC ecosystem.
I don't like Apple, but the idea they fine Apple for an agreement between Apple and IRELAND is bullshit.
It's not Apple's job to ensure Ireland's offer is in conformance with EU policy. That's it. It's a company's duty to its shareholders to legally reduce its tax burden; by making an agreement with a GOVERNMENT, they fulfilled their role completely.
Of course, it's far /easier/ for the EU to try to punish Apple, as they really don't want to engender any more centrifugal forces in the EU right now by whomping Ireland with a $15bn invoice.
"The leading theory is that the climate started fluctuating heavily in Africa around that time"
Impossible, there were neither SUVs nor Republicans. Climate couldn't have changed, particularly rapidly, without either of those things to blame.
And it's American journalism in one sentence to call a shotgun a ".20 gauge".
Morons.
Nothing at all like Mars: check.
Fails to be in any way convenient for researchers and "support" projects: check
Justifies a lot of people going to Hawaii paid for by the US taxpayer: check
Well, I guess that's clear enough.
Russia has INVADED and IS OCCUPYING a neighboring country (one they laughingly signed a note to protect, no less).
China is essentially playing Age of Empires 2 in the South China sea, grabbing territory by building watchtowers and not giving a fuck about what anyone thinks.
The EU is disintegrating as people start to realize manually bolting countries together doesn't actually make them act like a single country.
Our economy is a sham based on completely phony numbers, contrived to enrich a tiny cadre of elites that drift in and out of power (always making more money with each step) like minglers at a garden party.
Our media is essentially a giant cumrag, soaked and dripping with the lowest-common-denominator vulgarity and venality.
We have one candidate for president that is a COMPLETE ASS and a know nothing buffoon who's like a cartoon character of himself, while the other candidate is corrupt to the very soul of her being, if she HAD a soul.
And what we're worrying about is whether films fairly represent women?
Where the fuck are the Visigoths to come climbing over OUR walls? Seriously, it's about time. If Rome was like this near the end, they probably welcomed it.
This isn't about Bush.
And "well they did it" didn't work as an excuse in 1st grade, you think it's appropriate for the secretary of state?
They should call the venture Soylent Power.
One could then say in a certain sense that it's green power because it's "powered by people!"
Oh wait, that isn't what you meant?
To be clear:
1) I think the gathering of handles like this is stupid, egregious, ridiculous, and a host of other adjectives. Suffice to say I think it's a bad idea.
2) that said, I think you grossly overestimate the US's need for, and concern about, tourists. Certainly there IS a tourism industry here, and it makes good $ and incomes for lots of people. But most Americans to this day don't even have a passport. The US, with its domestic market of 300 million mostly-wealthy people, ultimately doesn't care that much if foreign tourists don't come.
"Republican Governor Charlie Baker signed the law"
And the GOP wonders why people are leaving its party in droves?
The GOP used to be about free-market economics, not protecting a government sinecure.
When clearly illegal content described by the FBI on the national news isn't enough to get you jailed, why bother?
I believe Hilary could shoot Trump to death in a debate live on camera, and never see jail.
...when "hateful" is defined by a people with a certain set of beliefs.
The DOJ should crush Twitter as tacitly accepting responsibility for their content.
When they leak shit about people you don't like: "...an inspiring effort at transparency..."
When they leak shit about people you support: "...driven by personal grudges and reckless releases of information..."
I have strabismus (wandering eye) - is my group 'underrepresented' in the tech field, can I get free training and preferential hiring?
How about inverted nipples? My wife has them. Are there enough inverted-nipples in the tech fields that she could get some help too?
Without enough wandering-eye and inverted-nipple programmers, are we REALLY doing our best to promote diversity?
...so we're back to the 'impending death of the gaming console' again?
Seems like we just heard about the "death of the gaming computer" but I guess the cycles move more quickly.
How's that "death of the laptop" coming along by the way? I seem to recall the "experts" prognosticating we'd all be working on touchscreen tablets by now? Then of course there's paper - totally dead-tech too, amirite?
Well, I have to run and answer some of my 140+ work emails. It's a lot for something else I've been told is totally obsolescent and "dead".
...are you suggesting that Facebook is just a giant exercise in pointless narcissism? /unpossible.
...if they in ANY way moderate their content, then they're akin to a bbs provider or chat room provider and thus liable to the content itself. If someone is abused or stalked or whatever, then Twitter should be held liable. ...if they refuse to control content in any way, then I think they'd have the protected status of a common carrier like a telco. I can't sue the telco (with any reasonable chance of winning) if someone calls me up and tells me I'm an asshole (ok the truth may provide a defense there in any case...).
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Of course, from my understanding they have been practicing filtering, some might say tendentiously, so IMO that should make them massively vulnerable to anyone suing them because of trolls, etc.
After all, we seem to have forgotten a few fundamental fact of Twitter: NOBODY *HAS* to look at the fucking thing. If you're uncomfortable with what's being said...stop reading it?
...when they've built the "first" of anything that hasn't been researched, developed, and likely designed by someone else such that they simply stole the plans, connected a few lines, and built it domestically.
They can't really even build a decent jet engine themselves.
Every game has bugs at launch, but let's be honest: has there been any game recently hyped this much that WASN'T a disappointment?
Surprise Answer: Yes! Star Citizen, because it hasn't come out yet so it's not YET a disappointment though it CERTAINLY will be. If I could sell short on that, I'd drop $10k on that bet.
...for giving me ANOTHER reason never to visit that banal spuzz-closet again.